Exhibitions
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023
• Longhand, Leslie Sacks Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2022
• Manner of Speaking, Jack Fischer Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2021
• In Retrospect, Stremmel Gallery, Reno, NV
2019
• Leslie Sacks Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
• B. Sakata Garo, Sacramento, CA
2018
• Wirtz Art/Minnesota Street Project, San Francisco, CA
• Leslie Sacks Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2017
• Outside Voice, Sonoma County Museum of Art, Santa Rosa, CA
2016
• Stremmel Gallery, Reno, NV
2015
• Still Water, Leslie Sacks Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2014
• Angels‘ Share, Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2012
• Marc Katano: Penumbra, Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA
• Incisions, paintings on wood, 1990-91, 455 Market, San Francisco, CA, curated by Bonnie Earls-Solari
2009
• Marc Katano: Half Light, Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2008
• Marc Katano: Eurhythmic, Cheryl Pelavin Fine Art, New York, NY
2006
• Costello Childs Art, Phoenix, AZ
2005
• Tadu Contemporary Art Downtown, Santa Fe, NM
• Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2004
• Bryan Ohno Gallery, Seattle, WA
2003
• Stremmel Gallery, Reno, NV
• The Contemporary Museum at First Hawaiian Center, Honolulu, HI
• Pulliam Deffenbaugh Gallery, Portland, OR
2002
• Line Drawing, Cheryl Pelavin Gallery, New York, NY
2001
• New Paintings, Stremmel Gallery, Reno, NV
2000
• New Paintings, Pulliam & Deffembaugh Gallery, Portland, OR
1999
• Palimpsest, Cheryl Pelavin Fine Arts, New York, NY
• Pulliam & Deffenbaugh Gallery, Portland, OR
• Stremmel Gallery, Reno, NV
• Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1997
• Dusk and Dawn, Stremmel Gallery, Reno, NV
1995
• Light and Shadows, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR
• Thomas Babeor Gallery, La Jolla, CA
• Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA
• Penumbra, Bentley Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ
• Art Salon II, Chiba, Japan
1994
• Gallery Fresca, Tokyo, Japan
• Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1993
• Sharon Truax Fine Art, Venice, CA
1992
• ßGH2 Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1991
• Richard Green Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
• Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1989
• Richard Green Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1988
• Richard Green Gallery, New York, NY
1987
• Mary Wright Gallery, Dallas, TX
1986
• Richard Green Gallery, New York, NY
• Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1985
• San Jose Institute of Contemporary Arts, San Jose, CA
1984
• Bank of America Plaza Gallery, San Francisco, CA
• Hodges/Banks Gallery, Seattle, WA
1983
• Studio Marconi, Milan, Italy
• Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1982
• California State University, Hayward, CA
1980
• Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1979
• Introductions, Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024
• Contemporary Discoveries, Leslie Sacks Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2022
• Self-Portraits, Marc Katano & Kyoko Asano, Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2019
• Sonoma Modern/Contemporary Sonoma Valley Museum of Art, Sonoma, CA
2015
• Sonoma State University Art Gallery, Sonoma, CA
2013
• AKIN: The Art of Nicole and Marc Katano, Sonoma Valley Museum of Art, Sonoma, CA, curated by Kate Eilertsen
2010
• One by the Other, Marc Katano and Nicole Katano, The EDGE Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
2009
• Stremmel Gallery, Reno, NV
2008
• Inaugural Exhibition, The Edge Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
• Inaugural Exhibition, Costello Childs Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ
• Friends, Cheryl Pelavin Fine Art, New York, NY
2007
• 18 Painters, Visual Arts Gallery, Mt. Hood Community College, Gresham, OR
• CCA Artists at Wirtz Gallery, Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2006
• Inaugural Exhibition, Costello/Childs Contemporary, Phoenix, AZ
• Paintings on Paper 1998-2006, Costello/Childs Contemporary, Phoenix, AZ
• 3 Painters, Tadu Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, NM
• Black and White, Pulliam Deffenbaugh Gallery, Portland, OR
2004
• Marc Katano Paintings/Minoru Ohira Sculpture, Sabina Lee Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
• Summer Painting Show, Bryan Ohno Gallery, Seattle, WA
2002
• In Context: Pattern in Contemporary Printmaking, Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, New Jersey
2001
• Marc Katano and Minoru Ohira, Bryan Ohno Gallery, Seattle, WA
• Contemporary Prints, Pulliam Deffenbaugh Gallery, Portland, OR
• Collecting Our Thoughts: The Community Responds to Art in the Permanent Collection, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
2000
• Past and New Print Publications: Works by Marc Katano, Brad Durham, Charles C. Hill and Craig Kauffman, Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1999
• LA NY LA, Cheryl Pelavin Fine Art, New York, NY
1998
• Works on Paper, Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1997
• California Painting Sampler: Selections from BankAmerica Corporation Art Collection, Bank of America World Headquarters, San Francisco, CA
• Two Person Exhibition, Katano/Sakata, L.A. Artcore, Los Angeles, CA
1996
• NEWances, Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA
• New Beginnings, Skirball Museum, Los Angeles, CA
• Fifteenth Anniversary Exhibition, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR
• Group Exhibition, Thomas Babeor Gallery, La Jolla, CA
1994
• Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR
• A Common Language: Marc Katano and Minoru Ohira, Sharon Truax Fine Art, Venice, CA
• Nature Organized, Korean Cultural Center, Los Angeles, CA
• Inaugural Exhibition, L.A. Artcore, Los Angeles, CA
1993
• Gallery IV, Los Angeles, CA
• Gallery Finarte, Nagoya, Japan
1991
• The Artist’s Hand: Drawings from the BankAmerica Art Collection, San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA
• Maruzen Gallery, Sendai, Japan
1990
• Entetsu Art Theater Rose, Hamamatsu, Japan
1989
• Order and Intuition, Palo Alto Cultural Center, Palo Alto, CA
1988
• Mind Over Matter: New American Abstraction, International Art Project, San Francisco, CA
• Then and Now, Palo Alto Cultural Center, Palo Alto, CA
1987
• Shaklee Building, San Francisco, CA
1985
• Cultural Frontiers Across the Pacific, Dominican College, San Rafael, CA
• California Directions in Painting, Visual Arts Center of Alaska, Anchorage, AK
1984
• Traditions Transformed, Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA
• American Woodcuts Revival and Innovation, organized by World Print Council; traveling exhibition throughout Europe, sponsored by U.S.I.S. Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery, Porter College, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA
1983
• Oriental Art, The St. Paul Company Headquarters, St. Paul, MN
• The Japanese Artist in Hawaii ‘83, Amfac Center Plaza Gallery, Honolulu, HI
1981
• Bay Arts ‘81, juried by Jan Butterfield, Belmont, CA
• February: A Group Exhibition, Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA
• Crocker-Kingsley Annual Exhibition, juried by Betty Turnbull, E.B. Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA
• Three at Stephen Wirtz, Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1981
• SECA Award Exhibition, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
1980
• Sculpture, Berkeley Arts Center, Berkeley, CA
1978
• Alumni Invitational, California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA
1977
• Group Exhibition, Sun Gallery, Hayward, CA
1975
• Hayward Area Festival of the Arts, Hayward, CA
1974
• Bay Area Contemporary Artists, Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, CA
• Group Exhibition, University of Washington, Seattle, WA